I was having trouble getting my local django server to start up due to a...

...n error for this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21058177/no-module-named-defaults-django-simple-friends by changing the urls.py to use the django.conf.urls I am able to run this on and out of OpenShift Online.

I just tested this with a new gear and pushed the urls.py change to it.  App still responded so I think it is ready for more testing.